Professor Trixie McAree

Professor of Midwifery and Maternal Health

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Email:: Trixie.Mcaree@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: 0121 331 9196

Trixie is a dual registered midwife and nurse with over 30 years’ experience both in the UK and abroad. She started her career as a staff nurse in Accident and Emergency, then undertook aid and development projects in Angola and Kazakhstan for several years before returning to the UK. Trixie has held posts that include research and audit lead, clinical governance lead, lead safeguarding midwife, consultant midwife and Head of Midwifery. She is currently Professor of Midwifery and Maternal Health in a joint academic post at Birmingham City University and Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Trixie has two passions that drive her research interests: first, to empower midwives to empower women, supporting midwives do the best job possible and so that they support women to make better choices for their own health and well-being needs, thus changing their own and their families’ health outcomes. The second is to affect long-term health outcomes around enhancing maternal and fetal well-being by tackling health inequalities and the factors associated with them by using translational research and implementation science.

Recently, she has undertaken an evaluation the A-EQUIP model for NHS England. In addition, she provides Continuity of Carer training to Maternity Units across England.

Current Activity

Areas of Expertise

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Publications

Cross-Sudworth, McAree, et al (2018) Review of bespoke Home Birth Team British Journal Midwifery

Rao G, McAree T et al (2017) Universal screening and intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of Group B Streptococcus (Streptococcus agalactiae) infections in newborns: Results of an observational UK study. BJOG open

Veluppillai V, Ashokkumar O, McAree T (2014) Obstetric anal sphincter injury risk reduction: a retrospective observational analysis Journal of Perinatal medicine Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 761–767, ISSN (Online) 1619-3997, ISSN (Print) 0300-5577, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jpm-2013-0269

McAree T (2013) Obesity and vitamin D deficiency- Current concepts on their impact on pregnancyUSEndocrinology vol: 9 issue 1, Summer 2013 and in European Endocrinology Autumn 2013 European Endocrinology, 2013;9(2):125–7 DOI: http://doi.org/10.17925/EE.2013.09.02.125

McAree T, Jacobs B Manickavasagar T, Sivalokanathan S, Rainbow S Brennan L, Blair M (2013) High levels of Vitamin D deficiency- still a Public Health Issue? Maternal and Child Nutrition Jan 2013

Usman R, Mcaree T, Bassett P Sharma S (2012) The implications of a raised maternal BMI: a DGH experience, Journal of Obsetrics and Gynaecology. Informa health care Mar 16, 2012

McAree T, Manickavasagar T, Sivalokanathan S, Rainbow S Jacobs Brennan L, Blair M High levels of Vitamin D deficiency- a failure of Public Health Policy? (2011) arch. of childhood diseases 2011, 96 A1 (Abstract programme Special Edition) presented at RCPCH Annual Science meeting April 2011

McAree T (2011) Helping to reduce neonatal and infant death an e-learning module RCPHC and DH

McAree T, McCourt C and Beak S (2010) Women’s Perceptions of Group Practice Midwifery in an Ethnically Diverse Area Evidence based midwifery Sept 2010

McAree T (2006) “Reducing maternal mortality: systolic blood pressure – MIDIRS comments MIDIRS Midwifery digest September 2006 vol 16 no 3

Bateman – Webb T (2006): “How do clinicians classify, assess and respond to a raise in blood pressure in pregnancy?” British Journal of Midwifery Jan2006, vol14 no 1 p 33- 38)

Webb T: “Implementing research and evidence-based guidelines, using the introduction of manual sphygmomanometry as opposed to using automated machines as an example” MIDIRS Midwifery Digest – September 2005 vol 15 no 3 p 359-361

Posters:

Tripathi P Bhattachariee P McAree T McAree et al (2014) Observational study for evaluation of Procalcitonin in suspected cases of sepsis in pregnancy, labour and postpartum period RCOG World Conference, Hydrabad, India. March 2014

Dharmadasa A, Gough K, McAree T, Wittenberg M, Lucas DN, Robinson PN (2013) Vaginal Birth after Caesarean Section, a 5 year review of Anaesthetic interventions and outcomes Obstetric Anaesthesia, Bournemouth 2013

Rudra T, McAree T (2012) Are prostaglandins safer for IOL for women having VBAC after one caesarean section? FIGO conference 2012 (poster)

Vathanan V, McAree T, Ashokkumar O, Varkey S (2011) Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury: 4 year retrospective analysis for risk reduction9^th RCOG International Meeting in Athens, September 28-30^th 2011

Ekchechi C, McAree T, Sarhanis P (2010) Retrospective study of Pregnancy outcomes in women after cervical treatment BGCS Conference, Glasgow

Presentations

McAree T Forson C (2016) Empowered to care Empowered to Care: Current and Future Challenges for Medical Management in West Africa Lancaster University Ghana

McAree T and Johnston T (2015) Team working: The importance of care culture in providing a healthy birth environmentRoyal Society of Medicine

McAree T (2015) An overview of current priorities and challenges for delivery of maternity care, where maternity care is going and what this might mean for migrant women West Midlands Strategic Migration partnership Health Briefing

McAree T, Jacobs B Manickavasagar T, Sivalokanathan S, Rainbow S Brennan L, Blair M High levels of Vitamin D deficiency- still a Public Health Issue? Inaugural Commonwealth Nurses Federation Conference (2012)

McAree T, Wales N (2008) Presentation “Language barriers in Maternity Care” International Midwifery Conference, Glasgow

McAree T (2007) presentation “Perspectives on Risk Management” NPSA Risk Management Forum